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# Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) for Direct Supply
Achieve real-time supply chain intelligence through cost-effective B2B network integration with 100% of your direct materials suppliers
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Product overview
## Achieve real-time supply chain intelligence by integrating your 100% of direct materials suppliers
TraceLink MINT for Direct Supply leverages the TraceLink network and its powerful "Integrate Once, Interoperate with Everyone™" to enable complete integration with 100% of your direct materials suppliers at a fraction of the cost and time of EDI or point-to-point connections. Achieve the real-time visibility, collaboration, and control needed to improve the agility and on-time performance of your manufacturing operations.
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##### With MINT for Direct Supply, you can:
Use a single connection to the TraceLink network to integrate with all direct suppliers
Exchange a complete set of transactions from forecasts and POs to inventory balances, advance ship notices, invoices, and much more
Improve supply planning with accurate, real-time supplier data to deliver more products on-time, in-full
Build more agile and resilient relationships with suppliers
#### Industry challenges
### Integrate with 100% of your direct suppliers to improve visibility and reduce supply risk
For life sciences manufacturers, a lack of supply chain visibility across direct materials suppliers makes it difficult to effectively plan production. Critical challenges include:
##### Supply planning
Confirm POs and delivery schedules quickly and efficiently to ensure accurate supply and production planning.
##### Supply planning
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##### Managing up to thousands of suppliers
Ensuring efficient and cost-effective supplier onboarding with real-time data exchange improves collaboration and reduces risk.
##### Managing up to thousands of suppliers
##### Ensuring supplier quality
Life sciences companies need to ensure the on-time, in-full delivery of materials that are cGMP compliant and on-spec.
##### Ensuring supplier quality
##### Managing payments
Generating timely and accurate payments for materials helps to maintain trust and good supplier relationships.
##### Managing payments
Product benefits
## How Integrating 100% of Your Direct Suppliers Boosts Manufacturing Performance
## Cost-effective network integration
## Free partner onboarding
## Reduce inefficiency
## Improve supply planning
## Improve supplier relationships
## Rapid deployment
Product benefits
## Cost-effective network integration
Our unique pricing model is based on the number of trading partners using MINT and the number of transaction types being exchanged. There are no unpredictable usage fees based on data volumes processed or a percentage of the value of the business transactions. There are no fees for your suppliers to participate, which makes it possible to integrate 100% of direct suppliers.
Product benefits
## Free partner onboarding
Suppliers are onboarded by TraceLink at no cost, including initial system integration, ongoing maintenance and end user training.
Product benefits
## Reduce inefficiency
Real-time data exchange ensures you and your direct suppliers are aligned on goals and can quickly respond to demand changes and supply chain disruptions.
Product benefits
## Improve supply planning
Real-time purchase order exchange with acknowledgements and shipment updates from your direct suppliers ensures more accurate supply plans so products ship on-time, in-full with less buffer inventory.
Product benefits
## Improve supplier relationships
Real-time collaboration and timely and accurate invoice payments ensure strong supplier relationships and better responsiveness to unexpected changes.
Product benefits
## Rapid deployment
The TraceLink Integrate-Once, Interoperate with Everyone™ network approach gets you started in just days or weeks.
Capabilities
### MINT for Direct Supply
Reduce supply risk and boost manufacturing performance by integrating with all of your direct material suppliers. MINT on the proven TraceLink network makes it fast, simple and cost-effective.
#### Integrate Once, Interoperate with Everyone™
#### All levels of digital communication supported
#### Real-Time B2B integration
#### Flexible modes of integration
#### Manufacturing intelligence
#### Supply chain digitalization
- Each company trading partner has a single connection to the TraceLink network for each transaction type, eliminating the need for EDI or costly point-to-point integrations and enabling sharing that transaction with all network partners.
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- **System-to-System:** Business transactions are exchanged between your enterprise systems and your partners’ systems.
- **System-to-Person:** Business transactions are sent from your enterprise system to the TraceLink network and accessed by partners through the MINT user interface.
- **Person-to-Person:** You and your partner exchange data through the MINT user interface.
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- Enables real-time exchange of all common business transactions between life sciences companies and all direct materials suppliers across your supply chain.
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- Your company and each direct supplier uses the integration format that works best for them, including EDI (ANSI X12, EDIFACT), IDocs, EPCIS, XML, CSV, and API. Custom integrations are also supported.
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- Share and confirm forecasts with direct suppliers on products, quantities, due dates, order frequency, and lead times to lock in production capacity, ensure product supply, and create a more agile supply chain.
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- Share and confirm purchase orders through the network with all suppliers.
- Exchange and collaborate on purchase order updates online with suppliers.
- Enable suppliers to send digital ASNs and invoices.
- Use digital payments to streamline procure-to-pay process.
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Industry Voices
## Transforming supplier relationships
Customers and industry experts explain why integration between brand owners and suppliers is critical and how TraceLink can help.
Customers and industry experts explain why integration between brand owners and CMOs is critical and how TraceLink can help.
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The digitally transformed supply chain is really a situation where we have flows of information between companies, between all partners in the entire supply chain. It's not only about reducing inventory and speeding up lead times. It's also about making better business decisions, especially in a crisis situation, and it will certainly also help us reduce costs.
Frank Binder
Global Head of Supply Chain Management
Santen Pharmaceuticals
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TraceLink customers can exchange business information with all partners through a single integration in their preferred format without maintaining separate integrations for each customer and partner. TraceLink supports all transaction types and maps via an ever-expanding catalog as customer needs evolve and mature.
Simon Ellis
Group Vice President and Leader of Global Supply Chain Strategies Practices
IDC
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### Let’s connect
Ready to see how MINT for Direct Supply digitally transforms supplier relationships? Contact us to schedule a personalized demo.
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